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		<title>These Educators Deserve a Movie Deal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are two stories to tell in Chester Upland School District in Pennsylvania.  One is a heroic story worthy of a book or movie deal. Chester Upland, a poor and predominantly minority district, is a long way from Hollywood, but it does have a star in Sara Ferguson.]]></description>
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		<title>Parent Involvement is Smart. Don’t Turn it Into Something Stupid</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I wish I had had a chance to speak to the elected officials in Idaho.  That I know of, they were not on drugs or drinking heavily when in answer to state legislation requiring incentives for teacher performance, some Idaho school districts came up with this head smacker: A teacher’s pay will be based on how many parents show up to parent-teacher conferences.]]></description>
		<link>http://lilysblackboard.org/2012/01/parent-involvement-is-smart/</link>
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		<title>Lily On Assignment With CNN&#8217;s Sanjay Gupta</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thousands of schools across the country are in tremendous need of repair, remodeling, or replacement. CNN&#8217;s Sanjay Gupta tours a Pennsylvania public school with Lily Eskelsen and learns firsthand how indoor air quality issues affect student success. Schools like this one fall woefully short in providing a minimum environment for effective teaching and learning. It [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lilysblackboard.org/2012/01/lily-on-assignment-with-cnns-sanjay-gupta/</link>
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		<title>An International Diane Ravitch Moment?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For more than ten long, empty, intellectually dry and dishonest years, we’ve lived under the insanity of No Child Left Untested. (Someone told me not to be so negative. Trust me. I’m holding back.) Children, especially poor children, have been subjected to a corporate “reform” mentality of pass/fail by making their quota of test score points on some standardized garbage never designed to gauge anything more delicately complex than a child’s understanding of where the comma goes.]]></description>
		<link>http://lilysblackboard.org/2011/12/an-international-diane-ravitch-moment/</link>
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		<title>And Now, About Those Mega-Rich Alleged Job Creators…</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Any second-grader could do the math. The rich have been getting richer, and as tax breaks for big business and big wealth have exploded beyond reason, jobs here have been shrinking, not growing.]]></description>
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		<title>When it Rains, it Pours&#8230;in the Middle of the Classroom</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An estimated 14 million American children attend deteriorating public schools. Of the existing 80,000 public schools, at least one-third need extensive repair or replacement and at least two-thirds have unhealthy environmental conditions.]]></description>
		<link>http://lilysblackboard.org/2011/11/when-it-rains-it-pours-in-the-middle-of-the-classroom/</link>
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		<title>American Education Week: Creating Amazing Public Schools</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Happy American Education Week. In honor of the week-long celebration, I was asked to focus my remarks this week on my “vision” for an amazing public school system. Oh my.]]></description>
		<link>http://lilysblackboard.org/2011/11/american-education-week-creating-amazing-public-schools/</link>
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		<title>We Are All Ohio</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am Ohio today. Ok, I’m in Ohio, but I didn’t forget the preposition. I am Ohio today. All across the country good people who work for American public schools, colleges and universities are celebrating. Firefighters are celebrating. Police officers are celebrating. This is an historic victory.]]></description>
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